Way of the Spirit Module 1: Discernment

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  • Distinguish God’s inward guidance
  • Strengthen your understanding of discernment in scripture, and in Christian and Quaker heritage
  • Integrate content with contemplation, dialogue & worship
  • Face challenges in your discernment:

Use of time
Stress
Uncertainty — Is this God’s will, really?
Self and Spirit — How much is “me” not God?
Discerning “way closing” or when it’s time to stop
Living with mistakes

  • 150-200 pages of assigned reading before the retreat. See January 2012 Reading List.
  • Participants may continue in the year-long Way of the Spirit program, or attend the first module as a stand alone retreat.*
  • Pay $350 for module one stand alone, $2,400 for three module series
  • Year-long program participants follow up Module One with commitment to daily prayer, a private online reflection group, personal projects and spiritual direction/guidance sessions. See year-long program overview here.
  • Is this for you?

* The January module begins a year-long Way of the Spirit retreat series continuing in April and September (dates pending facility availability). January’s retreat introduces key processes for spiritual formation in community; April and September retreats are open to continuing participants only.


January Module Staff

Christine Betz Hall, Way of the Spirit Coordinator and Facilitator, Good News Associate, North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Margery Post Abbott, Guest Speaker on early Friends, Author of To be Broken and Tender: a Quaker Theology for Today, North Pacific Yearly Meeting
Wess Daniels, Guest Speaker on scripture, discernment and call, Released Quaker Minister, Camas, WA, Northwest Yearly Meeting

Inquires: christine@goodnewsassoc.org